The Journals of Louisa M.Alcott (Paperback, New edition)

From her eleventh year to the month of her death at age 55, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals. She never intended for them to be published, but the insights they provide into her remarkable life are invaluable. Alcott grew up in a genteel but impoverished household, surrounded by the literary and philosophical elite of 19th-century New England, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Like her fictional alter ego, Jo March, she was a free spirit who longed for independence, yet she dutifully supported her parents and three sisters with her literary efforts. In the journals are to be found hints of Alcott's surprisingly complex persona as well as clues to her double life as an author not only of ""high"" literature but also of serial thrillers and Gothic romances. This unabridged edition of Alcott's private diaries serves as a companion volume to ""The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott"", offering a record of the life of an extraordinary woman.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1997
First published:	September 1997
Authors:	Louisa M. Alcott
Volume editors:	Joel Myerson
Introduction by:	Madeleine B. Stern
Editors:	Daniel Shealy (Associate Professor of English, University of North Carolina, USA)
Dimensions:	230 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	356
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-1950-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-8203-1950-3
Barcode:	9780820319506

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